Dissipation of light?

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Originally Posted by GuidoHunter

Light very much does NOT have weight.

Photons are massless.

Gravity does not suck in photons, it curves spacetime such that the straight line that a photon travels will spiral back in toward the hole.

--Guido

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No weight, but relativistic mass! (which i'm sure you know, but for those who don't). Which basically means it has mass because it has energy because it is moving, and they're basically different manefestations of the same thing.

Warping space to move through space faster than light does not mean you are actually moving faster than light. When warping you are changing the distance, not the speed There is absolutely no way to break the light speed barrier. However, that doesn't prevent us from getting from A to B faster than light does.

You can't really see black holes. There are special techniques for spotting them though. A big spinning cloud of gas? A galaxy? There is a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy and all galaxies for that matter.

You wouldn't exist in view for eternity if you flew into it. I suppose in theory you wouldn't cross the event horizon, but it's not like this has been tested. Time would indeed slow and they would appear to be moving very slowly from your point of view (and this is assuming you could even observe them XD A BIG ASSUMPTION!). But remember, time only dilates extremely at ridiculously large energies/masses. Near the event horizon you're not going to 'stop'. You're going to be starting to slow down rapidly to an observer, but not stop. And then at that point you're going to f'ing DIE (and your ship annihilated). The outside observer likely would not see any of this though. But neither would you inside the ship! You will not exist long before you reach the singularity, which is where you may or may not stop completely, but you're not going to find out!